Medical Transport team the unsung hero behind Bumrungrad Hospital’s “Local HERO” story

An elderly gentleman coughs blood with every desperate breath, as a voice says surgery is too great a risk for the lung cancer patient during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Let him go,” the unseen doctor tells his wife.  

With local treatment options closed, he considers a different option. 

“Thailand? Are you sure?” the patient asks sceptically. “I’ve never heard that there were good hospitals and great doctors in Thailand.” 

He ends up travelling to Thailand, having an operation and his pain presumably relieved. “Thank you, Thailand, and thank you doctor. For me, this is now one of the safest places in the world”.  

The video clip was inspired by a true story of a foreign patient at Bumrungrad…